GOP senators cast doubt on spending clawback
Key Republican Senators on Monday raised doubts that a rescission bill canceling some government spending would be able to pass the Senate.
“It is counter to the agreement that both houses and both parties and the administration reached, and to try to undo it after it’s just been signed into law strikes me as ill-advised,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), referring to a $1.3 trillion spending package passed with bipartisan support in late March.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and President Trump have been discussing ways to rescind funds from the spending deal, a process that was once common for narrow spending changes, but has seldom been used to railroad a negotiated, bipartisan agreement.
Collins, a moderate who has in the past bucked her party and the administration, said that reneging on promises made to Democrats “would make it very difficult” to strike future bipartisan deals.
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